Greater Nottingham Broxtowe Borough Council Erewash Borough Council Gedling Borough Council Nottingham City Council Rushcliffe Borough Council Infrastructure Delivery Plan June 2012 (Version 1) KS/INF/01 This page is intentionally blank Greater Nottingham Broxtowe, Erewash, Gedling, Nottingham City and Rushcliffe Infrastructure Delivery Plan Contents Page 1. Executive Summary 2 Part One - Context 2. Purpose of the Infrastructure Delivery Plan 4 3. Joint Working Arrangements and Governance 5 4. Scope and Status 6 5. Policy Context 7 6. Engagement and Consultation 11 7. Infrastructure Topic Areas 11 Part 2 – Infrastructure Assessment and Viability 8. Infrastructure Assessment a) Transport 13 b) Utilities – Water 24 c) Utilities - Energy, 30 d) Utilities – IT 39 e) Flooding and Flood Risk 40 f) Health and Local Services 51 g) Education 58 h) Emergency Services (police, fire and ambulance) 68 i) Waste Management (Collection and Disposal) 74 j) Green Infrastructure 79 9. Strategic Sites and Viability Assessments 85 Part 3 – Infrastructure Schedule and Funding Programmes 10. Greater Nottingham Infrastructure Schedule 186 11. Complementary Strategies, Programmes and Funding 201 12. Monitoring and Review 202 Appendix A - Consultees 203 Appendix B – Viability Assessment Methodology 204 Contacts and Further Information 230 1 Greater Nottingham Broxtowe, Erewash, Gedling, Nottingham City and Rushcliffe Infrastructure Delivery Plan 1. Executive Summary This Infrastructure Delivery Plan accompanies the Core Strategies of Broxtowe, Erewash, Gedling, Nottingham and Rushcliffe Councils. It considers a range of infrastructure categories and the extent to which each is a constraint to the delivery of the Core Strategies. Where possible it identifies the cost and delivery route for new infrastructure and whether the infrastructure is critical to the delivery of the strategies. The IDP has been developed following consultation with service providers and with reference to wider evidence base documents. The primary issues identified in the plan which have the potential to affect the delivery of the Core Strategies are set out below: • Key dependency identified for the Clifton South site - dependant on delivery of the A453 improvement scheme, detailed proposals for site access and integration with the A453 required; • Proactive approach required to flooding and flood risk at the Boots/Severn Trent, Field Farm and Waterside sites, public sector intervention required at Boots regarding site remediation; • Early dialogue essential with Severn Trent Water to enable satisfactory lead in periods for water and waste water infrastructure; • Early dialogue essential with Western Power to enable satisfactory lead in periods for electricity supply; • There are pressures on education provision across the IDP area and contributions to additional school places are likely to be required on most sites; • Detailed mitigation measures required to ensure there are no adverse affects on the prospective Sherwood Forest Special Protection Area; • Congestion and delays as a result of the cumulative impact of the Core Strategies. Further detailed assessment of transport proposals and potential mitigation measures required. • Gaps in information relating to transport assessment (transport modelling work is underway) and health services; • Strategic level assessments indicate the broad viability of sites but underline the need for open book appraisals with developers to objectively assess developer contributions and essential infrastructure. • Providers such as the emergency services, will required more detailed information (e.g. tenancy) to confirm infrastructure requirements. The IDP sets out infrastructure requirements and capacity constraints as advised by local authorities and stakeholders. It does not imply that all of these requirements need to be met for development to proceed. The IDP will assist with the prioritisation of essential infrastructure for acceptable sustainable development to proceed along side viability assessments. Broad brush viability assessment undertaken as part of the IDP, indicate that the strategic allocations identified in the Core Strategies are broadly viable but councils and developers 2 Greater Nottingham Broxtowe, Erewash, Gedling, Nottingham City and Rushcliffe Infrastructure Delivery Plan will need to have a collaborative ‘open book’ approach to agreeing S106 contributions. The availability of land and apparent viability of some of the Core Strategies undeveloped green field sites points to wider issues in the market related to finance and investor confidence. The IDP is a living document and will require ongoing review as development proposals and infrastructure requirements are confirmed in more detail. In particular the document will be reviewed and updated to reflect the results of ongoing transport modelling work. The first stage report from the Greater Nottingham Transport Model is expected to be available mid June. 3 Greater Nottingham Broxtowe, Erewash, Gedling, Nottingham City and Rushcliffe Infrastructure Delivery Plan Part 1 1. Purpose of the Plan This IDP sets out infrastructure capacity, constraints and requirements associated with the Core Strategies of the following councils: Broxtowe Borough Council Erewash Borough Council Gedling Borough Council Nottingham City Council Rushcliffe Borough Council It seeks to identify when infrastructure will be required, how it will be delivered and funded and responds to guidance within the National Planning Policy Framework which requires local councils to ensure that Core Strategy proposals are supported by satisfactory infrastructure. The Planning Inspectorate has provided advice on approaches to infrastructure planning within ‘Examining Development Plan Documents: Learning from Experience’ (September 2009). Further guidance specifically for Greater Nottingham was provided by David Vickery as part of the Planning Inspectorates Advisory visit in March 2010. Greater Nottingham’s Infrastructure Delivery Plan responds to this guidance and builds on the Greater Nottingham and Ashfield Infrastructure Capacity Study completed in June 2009. The IDP will assist the partner authorities in considering and planning for infrastructure investment across the conurbation and will inform both public and private sector funding decisions. The document both responds to and informs other policy, investment programmes and strategies including: • S106 and proposed Community Infrastructure Levies • Local Transport Plans • The Nottingham Core HMA Local Investment Plan • Greater Nottingham Growth Point Programme • Local Authority Service Plans • Waste Plans • Health and Education Investment Plans • Sustainable Communities Plans Importantly the IDP may assist in identifying opportunities to maximise efficiencies in the use and effectiveness of existing assets and possibilities for cross boundary collaboration. Longer term, the IDP may inform the infrastructure priorities of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership. 4 Greater Nottingham Broxtowe, Erewash, Gedling, Nottingham City and Rushcliffe Infrastructure Delivery Plan 3. Joint Working Arrangements and Governance The following Councils are members of the Greater Nottingham Joint Planning Advisory Board: Ashfield District Council (with regard to the Hucknall wards of Ashfield District Council) Broxtowe Borough Council Derbyshire County Council Erewash Borough Council Gedling Borough Council Nottingham City Council Nottinghamshire County Council Rushcliffe Borough Council The Councils collaborate on strategic policy and planning issues and work together on joint commissions and evidence base documents and where possible have sought to maximise synergy across their emerging Core Strategies. Many of the infrastructure issues identified in this report have cross boundary impacts and/or solutions and interdependencies which necessitate collaboration between the authorities. A single IDP has therefore been developed to support the Core Strategies of Broxtowe, Erewash, Gedling, Nottingham and Rushcliffe Borough Councils. Ashfield District Council is not included in the IDP as Ashfield’s are at an early stage of plan preparation but the council remains closely involved in the Joint Planning Advisory Board and supporting joint officer group. As the Hucknall wards of Ashfield have a close functional relationship with the area covered by the IDP, broad assumptions regarding the future levels of growth and potential strategic sites within Hucknall have been made (in consultation with Ashfield District Council). This has enabled more realistic assessments of cumulative impacts (e.g. on transport networks and water resources) to made. The Derby Housing Market Area lies immediately to the west of Erewash Borough Council and regular meetings have taken place to share experience and methodologies for the Core Strategy evidence base. The IDP covers a large and complex spatial area. Other authorities have established single Infrastructure Working Groups with representatives from, for example, the Emergency Services, Utilities Companies and Council Departments. The area covered by the IDP includes a greater number of stakeholders (for example three highway authorities and five separate bodies representing the Emergency Services). Liaison via a number of focused themed meetings with service providers (where appropriate) has proved a meaningful vehicle for developing the IDP and for partners to discuss related cross boundary service delivery issues.